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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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The memoir of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991 from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California, when she was 11 years old. She was held prisoner by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido. She was held captive by the Garridos for over eighteen years, all the while living in a tent on the Garrido property. During her captivity she gave birth to two children fathered by Garrido. She reappeared...
2) Cold silence
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
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A widow and ex-FBI agent of hard-earned courage, Cody O'Brien is finally enjoying the quiet life, providing a good home for herself and her eight-year-old son, Ryan.
Then Ryan is kidnapped in broad daylight.
And Cody knows why. Her life is a dangerous lie, easily exposed by the killers responsible for her husband's murder.
Failed by the Witness Protection Program, she's on the run again, trusting only herself to save her son while heading
...3) Six seconds
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Mountie Dan Graham tracks down a washed-up conspiracy theorist reporter who has stumbled on the real thing. Meanwhile California bookseller Maggie Collin searches for her son, kidnapped by her husband--a traumatized contractor from the Iraqi war who has fled to Montana. And Samara Ingram, an Iraqi-British nurse whose husband and son were murdered in Baghdad by Western troops, takes slow steps toward retribution. All three are on a collision course...
4) Changeling
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Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
6) Bullet
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After the grandson of an aging detective is kidnapped by a ruthless drug cartel, Frank Marascos tosses his badge and enforces high-speed, high-calibre, explosive justice through the crowded streets of L.A. in a seemingly impossible attempt to piece his family back together.
8) Alpha dog
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Based on the real-life case of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer in California's San Gabriel Valley who, in 2000, became one of the youngest men to appear on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. With family links to organized crime, Johnny Truelove is on the warpath against Jake Mazursky, a sleazebag addict who owes him money. Fate intervenes when Johnny and his friend Frankie encounter Jake's 15-year-old half-brother Zack and hold him as collateral...
Pub. Date
[c2013]
Description
Somebody up there likes me, is the inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Cool hand Luke has prison loner Luke Jackson wining the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
In Harper, hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
In The Mackintosh man, Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's...
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